The part people underestimate is what happens to the wheel rather than the tyre. Once the air has gone the rim is carrying the car directly, and the edge of it works its way into the tyre from the inside while the road works on it from the outside. A few hundred yards of that will bend or chew an alloy, and a bent rim will not hold a seal properly no matter what tyre you put on it. So one of the things we do when the wheel comes off is check the rim honestly and tell you if it has been damaged, because fitting a good tyre to a bad wheel is a way of selling somebody the same problem twice.
All of which is another way of saying stop early. Catford makes that harder than it sounds, because the A205 South Circular through here is one of the most congested orbital routes in London and the instinct is to keep creeping along with everyone else. Do not. Get out of the lane at the first opportunity, even into a side street off Rushey Green, and leave the car there. It costs you nothing and it is the difference between a tyre and a tyre plus a wheel. Ring us, stay with the vehicle, and we bring everything to the kerb.
Whether the car is sat on a driveway in Rushey Green with a tyre that was fine yesterday, or stopped dead on Rushey Green, the useful thing is the same: get somebody to look at it before it is driven again. Level in Rushey Green, sloping in Bellingham: we set the car straight first. Underground parking in Rushey Green or Bellingham is worth flagging. A SE6 address in Hither Green and one in Southend are the same round.
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Catford is built around one of London's slowest orbital routes, and that slowness is deceptive. The A205 through here rarely flows, Rushey Green and the Broadway stay busy with buses from morning to night, and the gyratory near the stations tangles everything together, so a driver with a flat can spend a long time going nowhere while the wheel takes a beating. The terraced streets off the main roads are parked tight enough that dealing with it yourself is not realistic either. Stopping early protects the rim, and a van reaching the kerb does the rest.
The car had been driven a good distance flat before stopping. The tyre was obviously scrap, and the alloy underneath it had taken enough damage to need attention too. We showed the owner both before anything went back on.
Slow traffic feels safe and is not. The car covered less than half a mile in twenty minutes and the tyre was destroyed for every yard of it. Pulling into the first side road would have saved it.
Constant buses and deliveries leave plenty behind. The tyre went down slowly while parked, and what came out was a clean object in the middle of the tread with an undamaged wheel behind it.
Yes, and quickly. With no air in the tyre the rim carries the car directly and cuts into the tyre from the inside. A few hundred yards is enough to bend or chew an alloy, which then will not hold a seal properly.
We will, with the wheel off and in front of you. Fitting a new tyre onto a bent rim solves nothing and you would be back with the same complaint, so it is not something worth glossing over.
No. Pull into the first side street or safe gap you can reach and stop. We attend the car where it stands, so it never needs to reach a garage under tow or otherwise.
It is not. Slow traffic is exactly where people do the most damage, because a tyre is being destroyed by rotation rather than by speed. Get out of the lane and stop instead.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes, day or night, whether that is a street in Bellingham, a workplace near the Broadway or a pull-in off the South Circular.
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